His life is changed, his new career has begun.

There will be consequences." It made me feel creepy; it was uncanny.
"But for this change certain things would happen twelve days from now.
For instance, Nikolaus would save Lisa from drowning.

He would arrive on the scene at exactly the right moment--four minutes past ten, the long-ago appointed instant of time--and the water would be shoal, the achievement easy and certain.

But he will arrive some seconds too late, now; Lisa will have struggled into deeper water.

He will do his best, but both will drown." "Oh, Satan! Oh, dear Satan!" I cried, with the tears rising in my eyes, "save them! Don't let it happen.